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Some decent players there, but no ‘stars’ and several ‘busts’. In reality, the realistic hope should be a second line type player in 3-4 years but in reality there is probably a 50/50 chance of getting nothing.

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RandomScrub leafersutherland loomx I’m telling you that if you think our top line is what failed us, you’re on crack.

DARF24

Trade up for Bennet/Reinhart for fair price, otherwise trade down to Mccann (picks 8-15 is a wash to me)

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loomx leafersutherland All of our short comings come from the high percentage of fly-by players we have… none of which would be Tyler Bozak.

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RandomScrub Franson ain’t worth have as much without a contract signed sealed and delivered.

loomx

leafersutherland loomx Bozak isn’t really anything. He’s not good defensively, and he’s not good offensively. He’s a decent placeholder, but the point of a placeholder is to find someone better. The top line allows one goal against for every goal for. That IS is a problem.

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loomx leafersutherland The Leafs absolutely collapsed when Bozak was out of the line up.

loomx

RandomScrub loomx lol. I’m just saying the opposite of what you’re saying.

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@David Johnson Nice to see you, Dave.

djamon

Gus making a ton of sense. The next person to mention either of those idiotic rumours for the 1st overall should be banned. It’s so stupid.

loomx

leafersutherland loomx Yeah because Carlyle played Jay McClement more minutes than any other centre in Bozak’s absence. Take out a top 6 centre on most teams and the team won’t be as good.

Alec Brownscombe

djamon That rant was epic.

Simmsation

Richie would be a very Leafy pick Overvalue size in the assessment. Shanahan has asked for more risk, more upside. This is not Richie imo.

loomx

Simmsation William Nylander please.

KurtWhite

8th seems like such a high pick to me but u look at the recent years and they are not overly exciting

KatsHockey

rlpeppler LeafsNews APetrielli VintageLeaf Anthony was the star, I was bringing up the rear 😉

Ydargo

I didn’t really agree with the “Kessel and JVR” the window is closing bit…….to me if they peak now then that is a little off as I’m more inclined to to say 27-30 is the window for guys hitting their peak. Just my opinion on that

Simmsation

@loomx A total shot at real upside and a very non Leafy pick would be Fiala

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loomx leafersutherland Anyone with half a brain would know that the Leafs biggest problem this past year, like many years before it, is a lack of depth, a lack of veteran calmness and a real lack of two-way commitment from it’s forwards.

Tyler Bozak gets shit on by every armchair analyst that thinks he knows the sport by judging it on paper. Desharnais beat Bergeron in these playoffs and a month ago, I didn’t hear many Leaf fans consider Brad Richards a top center at this stage of his career, and look where he is.

Is Kopitar better than Tyler Bozak? Sure he is. But if you think we need a Kopitar on out team in order to have any hope at winning anything, you might as well put the barrel of a shotgun in your mouth right now. It’s not like you’ll shoot anything of importance anyway.

Anthony Petrielli

@David Johnson Yep. As we said- project. But should be a reasonably nice prospect.

rlpeppler

KatsHockey APetrielli Heheh. Wish it could have been longer. Enjoyed it. Bit of downer talking Leafs after watching Hawks/Kings though.